KUWAITI WOMEN WILL BE PERMITTED TO WORK IN PREVIOUSLY DESIGNATED 'NO-GO' ZONES

  • 28/09/2022

Kuwait City: The Public Authority for Manpower has made a decision to change some provisions of the list of rules and procedures for granting work permits to women, such as allowing them to work in a variety of business fields, including oil. The administrative decision amends Article 26 of the regulations by adding the paragraph "exempt from the prohibition on the employment of female engineers and workers in the area of maintenance and works related to drilling and maintenance of all types of wells, works related to supervision, management, follow-up, and operation that do not require strenuous physical effort."


It is noteworthy that Article (26) of the list of rules and procedures for granting work permits states as follows: ‘It is prohibited to employ women of any age in the following industries: work in dyes, asbestos industry, chlorine and soda industry, asphalt industry work, work in quarries and mines, work in slaughterhouses, manufacture and handling of pesticides, work in front of melting and casting furnaces, handling of fireworks and related jobs, operation or maintenance of motor machinery, manufacture and repair of liquid electric batteries, work in the compost industry or its warehouses, manufacture of sand bricks and any industry where an employee is exposed to silica dust, heavy work that requires strenuous physical effort such as building, construction and firefighting, and dangerous manual work such as work related to maintenance and drilling of wells of all kinds, all work that requires the handling or use of lead, benzene, arsenic, phosphorous, or any of the substances listed in the list of occupational hazards. 

The authority's decision, which will be published in the Official Gazette "Kuwait Ailiyom" on Sunday, September 25, includes "adding condition No. 7 to the conditions contained in Article No. 4 of the aforementioned list of rules and procedures for granting permission to work, which includes submitting evidence of payment of all companies' contributions to the Kuwait Foundation for the Advancement of Sciences."

Article No. 26 of the aforementioned list of rules and procedures for granting work permission has also been amended by the addition of the following paragraph: Article (4) Item No. (20) of the first category in Article No. (53) of the list of rules and procedures for granting work permission shall be replaced by the following text: "Veterinary activities licenced by the approved authorities."

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